(2022-10-01). Twitter reverses account lock on Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, without explanation. wsws.org There can be little doubt that the lock was not "in error," but rather a deliberate act of censorship against a campaign which has given voice to the sentiments and aspirations of rank-and-file workers.
(2022-09-30). The Democratic Party, Now The Leading Party Of War. popularresistance.org The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden's cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest. In fact Rep. Ro Khanna, Co-chair of Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential campaign boosted it in rants on CNN and Twitter. | Both of these proxy wars bring the US into conflict with two other major global nuclear powers. If the progressive pols cannot be against military escalati…
(2022-09-30). The Fake News Machine: How Meta Endangers Brazilian Democracy. cepr.net With just days left before Brazilians head to the polls to decide the political future of their country, the use of social media by political elites to manipulate elections is again in full swing.
(2022-09-30). For Haitian Asylum Seekers, Biden Is The More Effective Evil. popularresistance.org For many 2020 voters of Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Vice-Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, their historic electoral win would symbolize a drastic change from the vituperative language and callous policies that came to define the chaotic and destructive Trump years. Whether it was the Trump administration's criminalization of asylum seekers, separation of mother and child at the border through their cruel "zero tolerance" strategy, reduction in refugee resettlement, or use of xenophobic rhetoric before racializing a viral disease like COVID-19 that would stoke rampant Sinophobia, a more "compassionate…